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[Stephan Lehmke]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:31:49 +0200, "Skybuck Flying" <nospam at hotmail.com> wrote:

> How long did it take you to learn it ?
> 
> A week ?
> A month ?
> A year ?

In the last logic programming course I gave, it took my students
about three days to pick up the basic concepts of Oz, like 
declarative programming, stateful data types, dataflow concurrency,
higher-order programming, object-oriented programming, threads,
computation spaces, nondeterminism and the very basics of 
constraint programming.

Mind you, before this they had about one and a half weeks of
Logic Programming and Prolog, which sure helped a lot by 
creating the right frame of mind to understand these things.

I have to say that I am most experienced with Prolog myself;
I'd describe my own exposure to Oz as around two weeks. But I 
found the whole language and programming environment extremely 
approachable, especially as one can test every little example
immediately and inspect all kinds of system states to find out
what exactly is going on.

regards
Stephan